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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Seeing Blur Clearly Now

Woke up this morning to more of New York's summer of storms.Came across free stream of "Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur" on AOL's SpinnerWe used to make fun of Britpop bands like Blur in the 1990s: They sounded like weak English tea to the black coffee of American grunge. But Blur stands up well: the Kinks of their generation, perhaps, unlucky enough to come along at a time when musical Anglophilia in the U.S. was at an all-time low. Time to take another listen.